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New MSI Pro2-A Bios?

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Ok, few questions for everyone about my pro2a:

I just installed the OCer's bios and noticed a slight jump in sandra memory benchmarks. However, I notice no new controls in my bios. My advanced chipset features has never had the option to control the timing in the banks (first option is to enable/disable SPD; second option is to set the Cycle Length; third option is to set the DRAM clock; the individual bank timings are completely missing). Also, I see no option for turning on 4-way interleave in the OCer's bios. I know that SPD enables it automatically, though I haven't yet tried manually adjusting the CAS setting (disabling SPD) and seeing if Sandra still sees 4-way interleave as enabled.

Also, my bios doesn't seem to want to let me adjust my FSB...at all. Is there a certain setting I have to enable/disable to do this? All I know is that when I select the "Clock by slight adjust" setting, the input box is red and I can't type or enter in any value (stays put at 100). I don't have to unlock the multiplier (connect the L1 pins) to be able to manipulate fsb, do I?
 
Well nevermind the second part of my question; figure out what it was that was preventing me from changing the FSB.

Still don't see the option for bank timing, but just now finished testing out the manual CAS2/133mhz settings vs. SPD timing and (as before) noticed a huge drop in performance when not using SPD.
 
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